The great Leonard Cohen once wrote, “Sing another song, boys. This one has grown old and bitter.” And so it is with the ongoing controversy between the Nasher Sculpture Center and its 42-story next-door neighbor, Museum Tower. The latter is owned by the Dallas Police & Fire Pension System.

Tomasovic reiterates what pension administrator Richard Tettamant has said previously, that fixing the Nasher roof is the best way for the art museum to screen itself from the 44 percent reflectivity being emitted from the tower's glass exterior (even the tower's own 2010 covenant said reflectivity would not go above 35 percent).

The Nasher has nixed that idea, calling it a non-starter and yet the pension brass insist. Just last week, the Nasher issued a formal statement, saying no: “We believe a system of louvers or external shading for Museum Tower offers the most promise,” reads the Nasher statement. More on this issue can be found here.

Negotiators for both sides continue to work on solutions that have nothing to do with fixing the Nasher roof, so who knows what’s up with Tomasovic’s newsletter or Tettamant’s insistence that having the Nasher fix its roof is the way to go (that method would do nothing, of course, to address damage in the Nasher’s outdoor garden). Here's our latest front-page story on the subject.

And so it goes. How wonderful it would be if somehow, some way, the two sides could broker an agreement before this thing reaches its one-year anniversary in mid-September. Leonard Cohen said it best. Sing another song, boys. This one has grown old and bitter.